Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-01-05

1t provides that
No person or persons shall exhibit,
act, represent or perform, or cause
this to be done, any plays, farces of
any kind, or any games, tricks, Jug
glery, horse-racing, or cock. fighting,
or be engaged in dealing or conduct
ing any game of chance, or any such
like show, exhibition, or vocation
whatsoever on the Christian >abbath
or Sunday. Every person so offend
ing to be fined not less than $40 nor
more than $50 and costs.
ANY person keeping liquor store
or saloon open on the Sabbath is to be
fined from SIS to $50, with costs.
BY DeHaven: An Act to provide
for the taxing of mortgages and other
securities. 1t requires that
All mortgages, deeds of trust, con-
tracts, and other obligations by which
debt is secured, shall, for the pur
poses of assessment and taxation, be
deemed and treated as an interest in
the property affected thereby. except
as to railroads aud other quasi-public
corporations. In the case of debts SO
secured, the value of the property af
fected by such mortgage, deed of
trust, contract, or other obligations,
less the value of such security, shall
be assessed and taxed to the owner
thereof, in the county, city, or district
in which the property affected thereby
is situated. The taxes so levied shall
be lien upon the property and Sc
curity, and may be paid by either
party to such security; if paid by the
owner of the security, the tax SO lev
led upon the property affected thereby
shall become part of the debt so Sc
cured. If the owner OF the property
shall pay the tax 80 levied upon the
security, it shall constitute payment
thereon and to the extent Of such pay,
ment full discharge thereof.
BY Fem: An Act relating to attor.
neys' fees in civil cases. 1t provides
that
From and after the first day of
April, 1887, no contract made in
Idaho Territory shall be valid which
stipulates for the payment of attor-
neys' fees in case OF the enforcement
of such contract by law.
No judgment in any civil case shall
be rendered in any court IN Idaho
Territory making the attorneys fee of
either plaintiff or defendant part of
such judgment, except in cases arising
on written contracts made prior to the
first day of April, 1887.
By Hunter: An Act supplementary
TO the location and recording of min.
ing claims. 1t provides that
All mining claims hereafter located
upon veins or lodes of quartz, or other
rock in place bearing any of the pre-
cious or other metals, mentioned in
Section 1920 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States, may extend to
one hundred and fifty C15O) feet on
each side Of the middle of the vein at
the surface, but no location of min
ing claim shall be made until the dis
covery of the vein or lode within the
limits of the claim located, and dis
covery shaft shall have been sunk by
the locator to the depth of at least
six (6) feet from the lowest part of the
rim of such shaft at the surface, OF
deeper, If necessary to show a we'll
defined vein; provided, any open cut,
cross-cut or tunnel, which shall cut q
vein or lode at the depth of six (6)
feet below the surface, shall hold such
lode the same as if a discovery shat,
we're sunk down; provided, further
that when the locator has set the
stakes, posts or monuments described
in the next section to indicate the
lines of the claim, such stakes, posts
or monuments shall be taken, for the
purpose of said location, to mark cor
rectly the line thereof, and such lines
shall not be afterwards changed so al
to affe' the rights acquired or inter
fere with any location made subse
quently thereto.
The locator of any mining claim
shall, at the time of making the loca
ton, place a substantial stake or post
not less than four (4) inches square
or in diameter, at the point of discov'
cry, also similar stake or post at eacl
end of the ground claimed, aud Al
near rs practicable along the course
or line of the vein or ledge, and alst
a similar stake or post at each corne
of the location. Such stakes or post
shall be firmly set, and shall be a
least four (4) feet high above the sur
face, and shall each be marked dis